| Wednesday, September 25 |
| 12:00 pm | Registration, Poster Set-up, and Vendor Show |
| 2:00 pm | James Carrington, Ph.D., Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
“Opening Remarks” |
| | PhenoDays Session |
| 2:15 pm | Robert Furbank, Ph.D., High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre, CSIRO
"Phenotyping photosynthesis, biomass and growth from the pot to the paddock"
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| 3:00 pm | Brenda Andrews, Ph.D., Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
"From phenotypes to pathways: Global exploration of cellular networks using yeast functional genomics"
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| 3:45 pm | Break, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show
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| 4:15 pm | David Kramer, Ph.D., Michigan State University
“Next generation phenometrics reveal dynamic plant responses” |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Viewing (even-numbered) Mixer, and Vendor Show
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| Thursday, September 26 |
| 8:30 am | Coffee, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| | Emerging Leaders Session |
| 9:00 am | Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Ph.D., Purdue University
and
Chris Topp, Ph.D., Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
"Image-based phenotyping technologies for understanding root development:
From genome to phenome"
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| 9:45 am | Jesse Poland, Ph.D., USDA-ARS and Kansas State
"A field-based high-throughput phenotyping platform for plant genetics and breeding"
and
Michael Gore, Ph.D., Cornell University
“The genetic dissection of stress-adaptive traits in cotton”
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| 10:30 am | Break, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 11:00 am | Shital Dixit, Ph.D., PhenoFab/KeyGene
“Deciphering 'digital traits' towards predicting crop yield”
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| 11:30 am | Todd DeZwaan, Ph.D., Monsanto Company
“High-throughput phenotyping for agricultural product development” |
| 12:00 pm | Mikhail Berezin, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
"Identification of spectroscopic signatures of biological tissues in exNIR spectral range"
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Monsanto Lecture presented by David Logan, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
“Phenotyping in increasingly physiologically relevant contexts"
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| 3:00 pm | Break, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show
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| 3:30 pm | Robert Tanguay, Ph.D., Oregon State University
“Rapid phenotypic screening in zebrafish: High content data for 21st century toxicology" |
| 4:00 pm | John Vogel, Ph.D., USDA-ARS
“Phenomic analysis of natural and induced variation in Brachypodium distachyon”
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| 4:30 pm | Michael Malone, Ph.D., Monsanto Company
"The Maker Movement: An engine to drive 21st century scientific innovation"
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| 5:00 pm | Poster Viewing (odd-numbered), Mixer, and Vendor Show
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| 6:00 pm | Dinner
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| Friday, September 27 |
| 8:30 am | Coffee, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 9:00 am | Randall Peterson, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
"Automated, in vivo screening for behavior-modifying compounds"
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| 9:45 am | Edgar Spalding, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
"Machine vision for quantifying dynamic phenotypes in mutant and naturally varying populations"
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| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Bettina Berger, Ph.D., The Plant Accelerator, University of Adelaide
"High-throughput phenotyping to dissect complex traits in crops”
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| 11:30 am | Robert Pless, Ph.D., Washington University
"The climate from the ground up: Trying to use all the world’s webcams"
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| 12:00 pm | Rick van de Zedde, Wageningen UR
"Rapid 3D reconstruction of plants and the benefits for phenotyping and robotics"
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| 12:30 pm | Ivan Baxter, Ph.D., USDA-ARS/DDPSC
and
Todd Mockler, Ph.D., DDPSC
“Poster Awards and Closing Remarks”
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| 12:45 pm | Adjournment |